The federal government is investigating whether the truck stop company Haslam and his family own has engaged in fraud to keep millions of dollars worth of gas rebates that should have been distributed to its customers. Haslam plans to appear at company headquarters today to make a statement about the accusations. Media members have already been told that Haslam will not take any questions.

But as far as the NFL is concerned, these are just allegations, and Haslam is, for now anyway, free to continue running the Browns.

Look at the photo…….would you trust that guy?
Of course the league isn’t going to make him step down. What Haslam has done to the trucking company customers is no different than what all the owners and the league do to all the hard working fans that buy season tickets and merchandise.
Kickbacks and freebies go to the league sponsors, politicians, and lobbiests. While the average fan gets the shaft to recoup the costs.

The primary difference here is that the owners are Goodell’s boss, not the other way around. He cannot make an owner do anything. I challenge any of you to walk in to your bosses office and try to suspend them.

Regardless of if you like or hate him, this has absolutely nothing to do with Goodell.

Yeah sure no problem. Let the guy who’s company has stolen millions rome free and continue running the Professional Football team he owns. In the meantime i’m gonna go steal a loaf of bread to feed my family and hope i don’t get 6 months to a year for such a heinous crime.

Read the FBI informant phone transcript on the indictment … He’s guilty as hell. So lets review, Browns fans….our current owner is an interloper billionaire who bought our team with dirty money, the previous two owners were interloper billionaires that didn’t even like football and conspired with Modell, and then there’s dear old Art… I’m not even going to go into that. I think now is the time to make the case for public ownership of the Browns… This team really belongs to us folks, the people that have bled brown and orange for generations, not these aforementioned aholes. Lets get together once again, lawyer up with one voice , and go for it. Maybe we can build a organization like the Packers and never have to worry about someone taking what really belongs to us, the fans.

I always post in favor of the owners to be honest here, but this has got to make the other 31 owners livid. They look like idiots for not being able to properly vet this guy, and will be forced into a bad spot if he is indicted. This will be very interesting moving forward.

THe other owners don’t care either, because half of them do the same thing. Just look at the Glazers for example. Half of ManU IPO was supposed to pay off the team debt, but they pocketed half, made city of Tampa pay for 100% of their stadium and want them to pay for their upgrades now too! This is just surface talk.

In a special meeting of all the owners, the NFL responded to the news of Haslam’s fraud by suspending 3 more players from the Saints, taking away $10 more from the Redskins cap space, and making tackling illegal.

Of course the NFL won’t dock his pay because they don’t control his pay. His income is from his company and they have no control over that.

They could, perhaps should, and maybe will dock his portion of shared revenue if this goes to trial and he is found guilty, but if that happens I’m sure that anything the NFL imposes will seem like a slap on the wrist compared to whatever else he’ll be dealing with!